The material presented so far in this chapter has dealt exclusively with single-phase AC power, that is, with single sinusoidal sources. In fact, most of the AC power used today is generated and distributed as three-phase power, by means of an arrangement in which three sinusoidal voltages are generated out of phase with one another. The primary reason is efficiency: The weight of the conductors and other components in a three-phase system is much lower than that in a single-phase system delivering the same amount of power. Further, while the power produced by a single-phase system has a pulsating nature (recall the results of Section 7.1), a three-phase system can deliver a steady, constant supply of power. For example, later in this section it will be shown that a three-phase generator producing three balanced voltages—that is, voltages of equal amplitude and frequency displaced
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